“Sandoval is a very strong candidate and being of Mexican descent gives him inroads to the minority voters,” said political consultantDoug Kaplan, the managing partner of Gravis Insights, the Florida-based firm that conducted the poll.

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The poll surveyed 433 registered Republicans, 319 registered Democrats and 98 Independents on their preferences for the Senate race to succeed Reid and their presidential preferences, said Kaplan. The poll carries a 3 percent margin of error, 5 percent for Republican-only questions and 6 percent for Democratic-only questions.

“The former first lady is in uncharted waters in terms of her support,” he said. “Across the country, Clinton is polling at extremely high levels, in some places double her support in the same state in 2008.”

“Walker should be concerned about hitting a ceiling right now, while Bush is in good shape. Bush’s voters are not going anywhere and he has the money and organization to stick out a long campaign,” he said.

Notes: Gravis Marketing, a nonpartisan research firm, conducted a random telephone survey of 850 registered voters in Nevada regarding potential matchups. The voter list sample includes 443 Republican Primary participants, 319 Democratic Primary participants, and the remainder are Independents/Other. The poll has a margin of error of ± 3% [5% for Republican Primary/6% for Democratic Primary]. The total may not round to 100% because of rounding. The polls are weighted separately for each population in the question presented.

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About Neil W. McCabe

Neil W. McCabe is a political director for Gravis Marketing and a
McCabe is the political director of Gravis Marketing. Washington-based journalist McCabe is the Washington editor of Armed American Radio and a Townhall.com columnist. McCabe was a staff writer and photographer for The Pilot, Boston's Catholic paper, as well as the editor of The Alewife and The Somerville News, two free community papers in the Boston-area. He was a senior reporter at Human Events and the editor of HE's Guns & Patriots newsletter. A veteran of the Army Reserve, he deployed to Iraq as a combat historian.